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The La Garita Mountains extend from near the town of Creede east and northeast over 30 miles (48 km) toward the San Luis Valley. The range is marked by a circuitous ridge with the westernnmost peak being Phoenix Peak (elevation 13,895 feet (4,235 m)) near the Continental Divide and the easternmost peak being Lookout Mountain (elevation 11,516 ...
The La Garita Caldera is one of a number of calderas that formed during a massive ignimbrite flare-up in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada from 40 to 18 million years ago, and was the site of massive eruptions about 28.01 ± 0.04 million years ago, during the Oligocene Epoch.
La Garita in 2023. La Garita is an unincorporated community in Saguache County, in the U.S. state of Colorado. [1] History
The La Garita Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the La Garita Mountains of southern Colorado. The 129,626-acre (524.58 km 2 ) wilderness established in 1964 in Gunnison and Rio Grande National Forests includes segments of the Colorado Trail and the Continental Divide Trail .
Wheeler Geologic Area Location within Colorado. The Wheeler Geologic Area is a highly eroded outcropping of layers of volcanic ash, located in the San Juan Mountains in southern Colorado, United States. [1] It is about 10 miles east north-east of Creede. The ash is the result of eruptions from the La Garita Caldera approximately 25 million ...
Halfmoon Pass, elevation 12,523 ft (3,817 m), is a mountain pass at the East end of the La Garita Mountain Range that forms the boundary between Mineral and Saguache counties. The pass separates the Saquache Creek and West Bellows Creek watersheds in the La Garita Mountains of Colorado. Both creeks are part of the Rio Grande watershed.
La Garita, Colorado, an unincorporated community in Saguache County. The view is towards the west along Saguache County Road G. Date: Taken on 18 June 2023: Source:
All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado, United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains. As given in the table, topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.